How bigrichie started their logo design journey

Summary

Grabittoday.com is a new one-deal-per-day website launching shortly. We need a fun logo that will really inspire people to want to grab 'it' today (the it being electrical items, clothes and other stuff for sale). We also need a really cool design for our website, very sleek, clean and fun. Sorry to lump the logo and design together like this but there are no combination sections on 99d. This site will be competing with catchoftheday.com.au, zazz.com.au and woot.com. Woot.com is the 500 pound gorilla in the market and certain features on there must be prevalent on the grabittoday.com, but it also must stand on its own two feet as its own unique design. More info in the full brief.

Company name

Grabittoday.com

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

Grabittoday.com is an ecommerce website where just one product is featured on the site for sale each day. At 12pm noon each day the product will change to a new one. Usually, products will be electrical items like TVs, ipods etc, but we also have some plans to innovate on the types of products on offer. Most days (in fact, every day) the products will be on offer at a heavy discount.

So thats what the sites about, what about the design?

The logo needs to have the words grabittoday.com. Not looking for an image to go with the design, just needs to be fun, good colours with a designers touch, and inspire people to want to 'grab it today'. You choose the colours etc, just make it look good.

As for the one page design, the site needs to very prominently feature an image of one product and its price, and the amount its discounted by if relevant. You need to look at woot.com, catchoftheday.com.au and zazz.com.au to get a feel for what these sites are like ... and then make me something better.

There needs to be features such as a clear 'buy now' button (or a Grab it Now! button) and the social feature on woot.com is a definite must. By this i mean their 'discussions on todays woot' feature, grabittoday.com needs something like that but better. It should be comments with the ability to retweet, or cotweet, or something.

There needs to be a text area where a blurb will be written about the product, and it could be a large area as it may include product specifications, so the site may have to scroll down past the fold quite a bit.

Usual links/features of such a website such as terms and conditions links, privacy policy links down the bottom, about us, blog links etc up the top should all be present.

Thats its i think. There will be follow on work to the winner for design of the rest of the site (checkout pages, about us pages etc), and if you're good i have a dozen other projects you could work on.

Please monitor the comments section of this contest as if there are any changes i will announce them there. Feel free to ask me any questions you have about anything. Enjoy, and i look forward to seeing what the 99designs crowd comes up with.

Wants

- Fun, slick logo with a good bright colour scheme that will inspire people to grab it today!
- Clean, sleek, fun page design with an inspired colour scheme
- Must look at competitor sites such as woot.com, catchoftheday.com.au and zazz.com.au (and other one-deal-per-day sites) and get a feel for them ... then make me something better
- be innovative

Don't want

- Do NOT simply clone competing sites, create a better layout and design than theirs